I know some of you work I'm the tech field. I'm curious, what do you do day to day at your job?

I know some of you work I'm the tech field. I'm curious, what do you do day to day at your job?

Or i guess none of you do

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Fuck, I thought only the Indians I worked with at fidelity said this.

Its am old British term that Indians picked up during colonization but the British don't say it anymore, but all of India still does which makes it really odd and annoying.

The more I know. Thank you. I actually spent 3 weeks there back in 2013, Chennai sucks but I'd actually vacation in Bangalore if it weren't 24 hours away (and if traveling that far definitely would pic Thailand instead).

>get into office at 8AM
>spend 5 minutes opening visual studio, ticketing system and email client
>see email that my request for an SSD and something better than an A10 APU has been declined once again
>work on a bunch of tickets on a corporate software behemoth, hoping my fixes won't break some other interdependent shit that the useless unit tests fail to detect
>Visual studio 2008(!) hangs every 2 minutes due to gigantic spaghetti C++ codebase and lack of SSD/decent CPU
>use this time to ponder whether jumping from the 4th floor window would be enough to kill me or if I'd just end up paraplegic

Web development. Breakdown is roughly:

60% Writing plugins for Wordpress (usually API integrations)
15% Doing the JS that our front end guys can't do
5% Fixing bugs caused by the front end guys pasting in JS snippets from SO
10% Answering questions
5% Supporting clients
5% Raging at frustrating shit

Literally all Indians in IT do this.

If you go north look for Bhang. Its a weed lasi basically

No pointless meetings? Manager 1 on 1s? Career development? Or is that the bottom 20 percent.

I wasn't even IT, worked with 401k plans, but other dude explained it.

Is the ticketing system kinda like github where you have some idea of what the bug is? Or is it just some vague "our client says this don't work!" and you have to replicate and debug it yourself?

Yeah I was aware of it but never asked because of the fidelity handlers around all the time. Back home I'm a cocaine addict anyways.

Jack off in the server room and browse Sup Forums.

We have a couple of daily standups to monitor progress but I'm in the delightful position of barely ever being in meetings and actually getting work done, or facilitating the same.

Manager 1 on 1s are pretty rare (once every 3 months or so) it's less than 1% per day.

No specific career development time really. I always play with something new on every project though, so it's sort of baked into that.

Im a product manager for a small start up.

It's pretty high stress but its kind of what i've aways wanted so I'm happy doing it.

Pays shit and I miss having insurance tho, and explaining what you do to non-tech industry folks is borderline impossible.

I study and practice various fullstack languages and libraries to teach at my boot camp/hiring firm/contractor company, and also work on individual projects on my own schedule (but company time) as a demo for a future in-house apps to slowly wrest control from our India Dev team and make our lives easier.

It's some comfy shit. I get to lounge around shooting the breeze and shitpost about current industry trends, ideaguy projects off the ground just enough to then make our trainees do the code monkeying, and oversee their work and study telling them how to code the way I like. It's like being a Uni professor but getting paid $100k+ and never taking shit from students, because I can fire them for their bullshit.

I just do programming as a hobby because I have a cushy job but when I look at job offers I have zero idea what the hell they are talking about when hr discusses desired skills. Like SDLC standards. CAN communication protocols, Xamarin and Nagios.

I usually do stuff in c or python. I maintained my own web servers and e-mail servers and shit and have no idea what the hell they are talking about 90% of the time. I just assume its just middleware for plebs.

>tech field
That phrase lulz - I remember lasting out at a team member for using that phrase - how lazy can you get and leave the desired outcome indefinite - the needful!

Penetration testing, code review, training noob co-workers.

Why did they get an Indian Dev team in the first place?

I work in help desk at a large school board.
Answer calls and log tickets all day every day

That's Ai Shinozaki

It was an Indian company in the first place.

hows the ticket system work?

What do you mean? I fill out all the required fields, problem description, CTI and troubleshooting steps and either resolve it or assign it to another team

It's a piece of shit system from 1999 that seems to get slower every week

Never had to use one. What does cti mean?

Category/Type/Item

a system for classifying problems

So basically your job could be done by anyone following a flow chart?

most of time time yeah. For some things we even have "scripts" that basically take you through a flowchart that tell you what questions to ask and automatically fill in the ticket

I was hired recently as a software developer but somehow got roped into being a full stack front end dev. It could have been worse. The guys hired before me were doing grunt work. Highly visible and widely used grunt work, but still grunt work.

Now I'm going to be doing internal usability testing. Hopefully I get to do real development soon.

What do you mean by full stack front end?
I thought full stack just meant front and back end?

diddle in Excel creating various tools and models about 10-12 hours per week. The rest of the time I spend watching TV (I work from home full time).

Contract?

nah actual employee, been at a large corp for awhile

>tickets
Mostly maintaining servers, configuring services,locating/cleaning malware as this mining fad spread like wildfire.

Slow shift tonight, so I'm watching Halt and Catch fire. I'll take a nap after the episode

How often do you have to clean out malware?

I waste 30% of my time fighting horrible java apps that we use for system administration

Then I watch anime and fix broken shit the rest of the day.
Oh yeah and don't forget working with 30 year old legacy systems all day (not the fun kind)
The job is pretty easy and it pays well for what I am doing I guess

I access wireless gateways and routers remotely to change SSIDs and passwords upon customer request.

It's easy, I don't see why they can't do it themselves.

>Bangalore
Enjoy spending 3 hours to move 1 km

20% drinking coffee and having lunch
40% working on my own projects or watching memes
10% pointless meetings
30% working for (((them)))

That's like all of India. It wasn't as bad as Chennai and luckily the shift I was working plus proximity of Leela Palace to Embassy Golf Park made it pretty easy. On the weekend I would just take the auto rickshaw around (against company policy and to my assigned driver's chagrin) and wasn't too bad.

I work with the ELK stack and the surrounding services. So Kafka, Kubernetes, MySQL/PostgreSQL, etc.

At the moment my responsibilities are basically 50% operations type of work, 50% tooling/programing. This month has been slow so I've been working on cleaning up the cruft from the tools I've written so far in preparation to open source them on the company Github. Gonna be sick.

You do not post this meme you bloody bastard

Nice to meet you, The Tech Field.

>IT MSP embedded in a school
- Manage a team of incompident fuckwits
- Fix their shit
- Deal with a shitty client

>incompident

FUCK
*incompetent

I do technical consulting for two small-to-medium sized businesses, 75 employees or so

I work on-site two days a week. Day-to-day I fix server and system issues - some combination of WMS, ERP, and SQL systems will go down several times a week on average - and take support calls and emails, often of the "can you come by and show me how copy and paste works?" variety.

I also do special projects: report creation and customization, software integration, website work. I bill by the hour, so I'll basically do whatever they want to pay me to do

There is more to software development than web applications.

Pretty often as CMS installations get compromised and miners/malicious scripts get uploaded.

Lol what does it mean?

Can you do my work

It means do what you understand needs to be done, without instructions

Fuck you Chennai is better than Bangalore. Bangalore is a dumpster compared to Chennai

>arrive at workplace
>open visual studio
>check my sprint backlog in the whiteboard
>realize its too easy i could do it day before the next sprint
>watch anime browse Sup Forums
>go home

>arrive at 10:45
>suffer through pointless daily meeting
>boot up visual studio
>chech tickets in jira
>do the interesting stuff
>don't touch the parts that entail dealing with our legacy codebase
>fuck around on Sup Forums
>do that for two weeks
>realize I do have to slay the spaghetti hydra that's 10 years old
>spend a week in total panic mode
>it kinda works out
>rinse and repeat

I sit on my ass, do some gaymen, and occasionally move some funds from one cryptocurrency to another.

My day so far:
>arrive at work after 1h commute
>sit down, try not to fall asleep while staring at the blank screens and question my reasons to live for 15 minutes
>turn on screens
>look at bug tracker
>got 4 new ones since before the weekend
>open one
>a fork of our program won't load graphics when executed on an English windows xp install
>the dll that loads the graphics is bough from an independent developer and we don't have the source
>he died about 4 years ago in a car crash
>i kinda envy him
>whatever
>try to find where the window is even constructed
>no idea
>see that our admins pushed updates for some tools we use
>ohgodpleaseno.tiff
>try to build the program
>compile error
currently sitting here trying to figure out why the heck it won't compile. The codebase is 15 year old C++, it's a horrible pain to maintain and perforce is a bitch to work with. I'm not sure if there are many people who go through the same shit as the employees of this company desu

I feel your pain

I work for a UTM company doing tech support. I'm the guy they call when the UTM is doing something weird. I get to bandaid cluster fuck networks since retard admins can't network for shit.
I fucking hate this saying, fucking lazy cunts.

Apologies, Tamil bro, just my personal preference. I did like how Chennai allowed drinking past 11pm and the coastline south to Pondicherry.

>13 hours ago
>6 pm
Some people have jobs faggot

Work for large tech company. Look at pajeet tier java and maybe write one line of code per day.

Not even joking. Today was 6 lines, especially productive.